{"id":21300,"date":"2021-01-18T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indoor.ag\/?p=21300"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:27:23","slug":"indoor-ag-con-nga-show-may-2021-co-location-taps-into-synergies-between-growers-grocers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indoor.ag\/indoor-ag-con-nga-show-may-2021-co-location-taps-into-synergies-between-growers-grocers\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Ag-Con, NGA Show May 2021 Co-Location Taps Into Synergies Between Growers &#038; Grocers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><span class=\"text-color\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/indoor.ag\/the-nga-show-and-indoor-ag-con-to-co-locate-events-in-may-2021\/\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21274 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/indoor.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Slide_1-1-300x125.png\" alt=\"Indoor Ag-Con and The NGA Show Co-Location In 2021\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/>The NGA Show, <\/b><\/a><\/span>the leading trade show and conference for independent grocers, and <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/indoor.ag\/\">Indoor Ag-Con<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,<\/span><span class=\"text-color\"> the premier agriculture conference and trade show for the indoor and vertical farming industry, will co-locate in 2021.\u00a0 \u00a0The combined event will be held<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><u><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/indoor.ag\/\"> May 16-18, 2021 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, NV.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>The January 2021\u00a0 cover story from<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketperimeter.com\/articles\/6119-redefining-locally-grown-product-with-urban-farming\"> Supermarket Perimeter <\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0, titled <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketperimeter.com\/articles\/6119-redefining-locally-grown-product-with-urban-farming\">&#8220;Redefining Locally Grown Produce With Urban Farming&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, shines a spotlight on the synergies and new business opportunities emerging between grocers and indoor growers.\u00a0 \u00a0Written by the publication&#8217;s managing editor Andy Nelson, the article highlights a number of our industry leaders, including <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freightfarms.com\/\">Freight Farms<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gothamgreens.com\/\">Gotham Greens<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infarm.com\/en\">Infarm<\/a> and starts out:<\/p>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Supermarket Perimeter January 2021 Cover Story:<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Urban farms check a variety of boxes for today\u2019s consumers: locally grown, sustainable, low carbon footprint \u2014 not to mention fresh, healthy and tasty.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21301 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/indoor.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Supermarket-Perimeter-January-2021-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Supermarket Perimeter Highlights Indoor Grower and Grocer synergies\" width=\"214\" height=\"270\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the COVID pandemic has only made them more attractive, as transportation and logistics created huge headaches for retailers, shippers and everyone in between along the supply chain. Kroger, Whole Foods Market and Safeway are just a few of the big-name US retailers to get on board.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Minneapolis-based North Market installed a Freight Farms hydroponic vertical container farm in the summer of 2020, and the retailer followed that up in December with the decision to power its farm with solar panels connected to its roof.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow we have a repurposed shipping container, growing the equivalent of two acres of outdoor growing space, using only five gallons of water a day, entirely powered by solar panels, selling into a grocery store located 50 feet away,\u201d said Ethan Neal, food systems manager for Pillsbury United Communities, the nonprofit organization that funded the farm. \u201cIt\u2019s creating some of the highest quality produce available in a neighborhood that was considered one of the largest food deserts in the state of Minnesota.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article from<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketperimeter.com\/articles\/6119-redefining-locally-grown-product-with-urban-farming\"> Supermarket Perimeter<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, visit the publication website<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketperimeter.com\/articles\/6119-redefining-locally-grown-product-with-urban-farming\"> here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NGA Show, the leading trade show and conference for independent grocers, and Indoor Ag-Con, the premier agriculture conference and trade show for the indoor and vertical farming industry, will co-locate in 2021.\u00a0 \u00a0The combined event will be held May 16-18, 2021 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, NV.\u00a0 \u00a0The January 2021\u00a0 cover story from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[116,37,117,118,119,120,112,98],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indoor Ag-Con, NGA Show May 2021 Co-Location Taps Into Synergies Between Growers &amp; 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